Activism Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character…

— William Batchelder Greene

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of…

— Seneca the Younger

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods:…

— Evelyn Underhill

“what is ideals? Deliverance from such a predicament can only come through the realization that one’s highest moral ideals are not necessarily synonymous with…

— Uranita book

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing…

— Herbert Hoover

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

— Joseph Epstein

“We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

— Liam Neeson

Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to…

— William Batchelder Greene

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here…

— Bruce Lee

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas…

— Romain Rolland